Sir Ken, Animated

RSA Animate – Sir Ken Robinson – Changing Education Paradigms Credit for this wonderful find goes to Steve Clayton.

One Year in 90 Seconds

Earth with a Saturnian Ring System

What would the Earth look like if it had a ring system like Saturn’s? The video below shows us the view from space and the Earth’s surface. Thanks to Dream Happy Studios for the link.

I Need My Teachers to Learn

Created by Kevin Honeycutt and Shawn Gormley. In the words of Dr. Scott McLeod, this video “highlights some of the digital disconnects that exist between students and teachers”.

Happy Windows 7

I rebuilt my old Dell XPS M1710 with Windows 7 yesterday and it’s fantastic. No really, it’s a dream to use and seems to have given my machine a new lease of life. It’s not that I had any problems with poor embattled Vista, which served me well for almost three years. It was time [...]

Life in Atherton

While I work with schools in Bolton, I live in neighbouring Atherton. This video describes how tough life used to be in Northern England! If no video is displayed, you’re either reading this article via an RSS feed or YouTube is blocked by your establishment’s web filtering policy.

Fasten Seat Belts to the World

Are you travelling in Europe this summer? If the answer is yes, you might want to watch this video in order to avoid potentially awkward situations. The advice given for the UK is news to me! I’m obviously not very well travelled, even in my own country! Thanks to Tina Roth Eisenberg (who is very [...]

Office 2010: The Movie

Presented in HD (720p high definition). Thanks to Microsoft’s Steve Clayton for sharing. If no video is displayed, you’re either reading this article via an RSS feed or YouTube is blocked by your establishment’s web filtering policy.

Essa Academy – Manifesto for Change

I attended a meeting at the Essa Academy in Bolton yesterday to discuss how I could help the senior leadership use SIMS to record lesson attendance. Earlier in the week, I was lucky enough to attend the Heads & School Leaders’ ICT Conference in Bolton. While my colleagues and I were exhibiting at the event, [...]

USB Stick: Don’t Lose It!

While this video offers a light-hearted view of the loss of USB sticks, it does serve as a reminder that they do go missing. If you work in a school please, please, please don’t store children’s information on USB sticks. If you don’t have access to secure on-line file storage, ask your IT provider/local government [...]